Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,869, Abraham Foster, Mass.

SERVICE
Foster, Abraham
NUMBER
S. 34,869
Mass.
CONTENTS
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34 869 Rev INVALID.
File No. 84 869
Abraham Foster
Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 142
[Arrangement of 1870.]

10,082
Massachusetts 4
Abraham Foster
of Salem in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Baldwin of the Massachusetts line, for the term of Two years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 23 rd of June 1818
Certificate of Text"> Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st of May 1823 and sent to Judge W. Wetmore Boston Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of Mar: 1819. 75. 19
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sep: 1819 48.00
$123. 19
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

abraham Fortin
of 6 to 8 o'clock Baldwin chapter Reg. Admitted
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State of Massachusetts.
I Abraham Foster a citizen of the United States, now resident at Salem in the County of Essex State aforesaid do on oath testify and declare that in the war of the revolution on the twentieth day of April Seventeen hundred & seventy five I entered & engaged in the land service of the United States on the Continental establishment, & served accordingly in the Massachusetts line of the Army to January Seventeen hundred & seventy seven, for the first eight months in Col. Gerrish's regiment & Capt. Mighill's company, & for the year ending December 20. A. D. 1776 in the same regiment then commanded by Col. Baldwin, & in Capt. Pittingall's company; that I then enlisted in a company of artificers, commanded by Capt. Post & was stationed at Danbury where I served about one year, that these services were without interruption or absence from April 20. 1775 to December 1777. when I was honorably discharged That by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I stand in need of Assistance from my country for support, and that I hereby relinquish all claim to every pension that may have been heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States. I am now Sixty three years old.
Abraham Foster
Be it remembered, that on this twenty third day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred & eighteen pursuant to a law of the United States, intitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" made and passed on the 18 th of March. A.D. 1818. personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the

the Highest Court of Common pleas for the Middle Circuit within the State aforesaid & presiding pro hac vice, the within named Abraham Foster, and after due examination & caution to testify & declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration within written & subscribed, the same in my presence, and on examination duly made by me the said Judge it appeareth to my satisfaction, that the said declara- tion is true, & that the Deponents hereto, Daniel Smith & Thomas Lock, are credible & disinterested witnesses. In testimony of all which I hereunto affix my hand & the Seal of the Court aforesaid.
W m Wetmore
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We Daniel Smith of Cambridge, & Thomas Locke of Lexington both of the District of Massachusetts, do testify that we were for in the service of the Continent of America in the regiment first com- manded by Col. Gerrish, and afterwards by Col. Baldwin, in the years 1775 & 1776 of the revolutionary war - and we some time were acquainted with Mr. Abraham Foster of Salem, and declarant with him named & knows that he was a sergeant in Capt. Pittinger's company, & Col. Baldwin's regiment in the Massachusetts line in the year 1776, & that he served as such in said company more than nine months, & as we verily believe for the whole year, & the above-named Thomas Locke being a sergeant in Capt. Wood's company in the same regiment at the same time
Daniel Smith Thos. Locke
Sworn to, before me
W m Wetmore Judge within named.